Ancestry
Memories of a massacre
Rinder’s documentary is the kind of television at which the BBC excels, says Adam Lebor
The Scullabogue martyrs
A S H Smyth remembers his Quaker ancestors killed June 5, during the Irish rebellion of 1798
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art